Introduction: Narratives of Old Age and Gender: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives
(2023)
Journal Article
Shears, J., Adiseshiah, S., & Culley, A. (2023). Introduction: Narratives of Old Age and Gender: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives. Journal of the British Academy, 11s2, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/011s2.001
Outputs (30)
'Thou Breath of Autumn’s Being': Voicing Masculinity in the Poetry of Late Life (2023)
Journal Article
Shears. (in press). 'Thou Breath of Autumn’s Being': Voicing Masculinity in the Poetry of Late Life. Journal of the British Academy, https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/011s2.095This essay argues that lyric poetry is a form suited to contesting dominant ideas about masculinity because of its thematic and formal preoccupations with voice. It argues that voice offers a different way of viewing the social constrictions that acc... Read More about 'Thou Breath of Autumn’s Being': Voicing Masculinity in the Poetry of Late Life.
The Romantic Tavern: Literature and Conviviality in the Age of Revolution (2023)
Journal Article
Shears, J. (2023). The Romantic Tavern: Literature and Conviviality in the Age of Revolution. Romanticism, 29(2), 205-206. https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2023.0603
‘Rough Critical Winds’: Mis-selling English Pastoral in H. E. Bates’s Larkin Novels, 1958-1970’ (2023)
Journal Article
Shears. (2023). ‘Rough Critical Winds’: Mis-selling English Pastoral in H. E. Bates’s Larkin Novels, 1958-1970’. English Studies, 104(5), https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2023.2188806The revival of interest in H. E. Bates has largely come without much attention being paid to his series of five novels featuring the Larkin family (1958-1970). The neglect is because of their populist and comic mode. Yet, study of the Larkin novels e... Read More about ‘Rough Critical Winds’: Mis-selling English Pastoral in H. E. Bates’s Larkin Novels, 1958-1970’.
When the Clock Takes Over Hangovers in twentieth-century British and American fiction and poetry (2022)
Book Chapter
Shears, J. (2022). When the Clock Takes Over Hangovers in twentieth-century British and American fiction and poetry. In Routledge Handbook of Intoxicants and Intoxication
An Allusion to Don Juan: Reappraising Branwell Bronte's Byronic Self-Fashioning (2021)
Journal Article
Shears, J. (2021). An Allusion to Don Juan: Reappraising Branwell Bronte's Byronic Self-Fashioning. Brontë Studies, 30-46. https://doi.org/10.1080/14748932.2021.1991615In January 1847, Branwell Brontë wrote a letter to his friend J. B. Leyland quoting from Lord Byron’s satirical epic Don Juan. This was an unusual choice of allusion given that the topic is Byron’s feelings of longsuffering that Branwell usually rela... Read More about An Allusion to Don Juan: Reappraising Branwell Bronte's Byronic Self-Fashioning.
Not for Envy: Paradise Lost and the Inward Turn in Byron’s Cain (2021)
Book Chapter
Shears, J. (2021). Not for Envy: Paradise Lost and the Inward Turn in Byron’s Cain. . Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108903790.003
The Aesthetics of Senescence: Aging, Population, and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel. Andrea Charise. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2020. Pp. xlv+194. (2021)
Journal Article
Shears. (2021). The Aesthetics of Senescence: Aging, Population, and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel. Andrea Charise. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2020. Pp. xlv+194. Modern Philology, 118(4), E264 - E266. https://doi.org/10.1086/712592
Self and Society (2021)
Book Chapter
Shears, J. (2021). Self and Society. . (1). Bloomsbury Publishing
Integrating Video Content into Humanities Teaching: a case study (2020)
Journal Article
Kistler, J., & Shears, J. (2020). Integrating Video Content into Humanities Teaching: a case study. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/bj37-7330Screencasts and other video content offer an innovative means of improving communication between tutors and students and addressing student concerns about limited contact hours, which can be particularly pressing in English Literature. Our students’... Read More about Integrating Video Content into Humanities Teaching: a case study.
The Hangover: A Literary and Cultural History (2020)
Book
Shears, J. (2020). The Hangover: A Literary and Cultural History. Liverpool University Press. https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789621198.001.0001
Romanticism and Ageing: An Introduction (2019)
Journal Article
Shears. (2019). Romanticism and Ageing: An Introduction. Romanticism, 217-224. https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2019.0427'No abstract'
'Old Men - and Women - May be Permitted to Speak Long': Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Voice of Experience (2019)
Journal Article
Shears. (2019). 'Old Men - and Women - May be Permitted to Speak Long': Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Voice of Experience. Romanticism, 249-260. https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2019.0430This article explores the complications involved in speaking from a position of seniority and experience in the life and work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It goes beyond the familiar caricatures of Coleridge as a garrulous old man, perpetuated by the... Read More about 'Old Men - and Women - May be Permitted to Speak Long': Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Voice of Experience.
I Ask His Pardon for a Postscript: Byron's Epistolary Afterthoughts (2018)
Book Chapter
Shears. (2018). I Ask His Pardon for a Postscript: Byron's Epistolary Afterthoughts. In Byron and Marginality (291 - 307)It is arguable that Byron’s letters and journals have never really been on the fringes or margins of our responses to the poet. Those published, albeit in censored form, in Thomas Moore’s Letters and Journals of Lord Byron as early as 1830 made an im... Read More about I Ask His Pardon for a Postscript: Byron's Epistolary Afterthoughts.
Bunyan and the Romantics (2018)
Book Chapter
Shears, J. (2018). Bunyan and the Romantics.
Byron and Premature Aging (2017)
Journal Article
Shears, J. (2017). Byron and Premature Aging
The Great Exhibition, 1851: A Sourcebook (2017)
Book
Shears, J. (2017). The Great Exhibition, 1851: A Sourcebook. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719099120.001.0001
In One We Shall Be Slower: Byron, Retribution and Forgiveness (2017)
Journal Article
Shears, J. (2017). In One We Shall Be Slower: Byron, Retribution and Forgiveness. Christianity and Literature, 193-212. https://doi.org/10.1177/0148333116645609While Byron is a poet often associated with feelings of resentment and anger, he is usually marginalized when it comes to the topic of forgiveness in the Romantic period. If forgiveness is debated in Byron then it is usually dominated by the suspicio... Read More about In One We Shall Be Slower: Byron, Retribution and Forgiveness.
Byron's Temperament: Essays in Body and Mind (2016)
Book
Beatty, B., & Shears, J. (Eds.). (2016). Byron's Temperament: Essays in Body and Mind
Byron's Hypochondria (2016)
Book Chapter
Shears, J. (2016). Byron's Hypochondria. In Byron's Temperament: Essays in Body and Mind. Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Byron's Temperament: Essays in Body and Mind (Ed. by J. Shears) (2016)
Book
Shears, J., & Beatty, B. (2016). J. Shears, & B. Beatty (Eds.). Byron's Temperament: Essays in Body and Mind (Ed. by J. Shears). Cambridge Scholars PublishingThis volume is the first to draw together, in eight original essays by international scholars, some of the dominant strains in critical thinking about Byron’s temperament and behaviour. Using discourses and paradigms drawn from a variety of disciplin... Read More about Byron's Temperament: Essays in Body and Mind (Ed. by J. Shears).
Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians (2016)
Book
Harrison, J. J. Shears (Ed.), Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315592565
Wordsworth’s English Poets (2015)
Book Chapter
Shears, J. (2015). Wordsworth’s English Poets. In R. Gravil, & D. Robinson (Eds.), Oxford Handbooks Online (449-466). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199662128.013.0028
Byron’s Habits (2014)
Journal Article
Shears, J. (2014). Byron’s Habits. Keats-Shelley Review, 28(1), 25-36. https://doi.org/10.1179/0952414214z.00000000040
‘The Ideas in Thing Town: Villette, Art and Moveable Objects’ (2013)
Book Chapter
Shears, J., & Harrison, J. (2013). ‘The Ideas in Thing Town: Villette, Art and Moveable Objects’.
Literary Bric-à-Brac Introducing Things (2013)
Book Chapter
Shears, J., & Harrison, J. (2013). Literary Bric-à-Brac Introducing Things.
Literary Bric-à-Brac (2013)
Book Chapter
Shears, J., & Harrison, J. (2016). Literary Bric-à-Brac. In Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315592565-1This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. Critical attention has long been held by, and directed us to scrutinise, the significance of the material substance of nineteenth-century litera... Read More about Literary Bric-à-Brac.
Digesting Don Juan Cantos I and II (2013)
Book Chapter
Shears, J. (2013). Digesting Don Juan Cantos I and II. . Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Listening to Christabel: Sound, Silence and the Contingencies of Voice (2013)
Journal Article
Shears, J. (2013). Listening to Christabel: Sound, Silence and the Contingencies of Voice. Romanticism, 19(1), 44-56. https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2013.0112
The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost: Reading Against the Grain (2009)
Book
Shears, J. (2009). The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost: Reading Against the Grain. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315237237The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost offers a new critical insight into the relationship between Milton and the Romantic poets. Beginning with a discussion of the role that seventeenth and eighteenth-century writers like Dryden, Johnson and Burke pla... Read More about The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost: Reading Against the Grain.